This is great! I know I’ve seen things like this before, but this article from Crazy Crow gives the history of seed beads as used by Native Americans. It’s a good, long article about how beads were made in Czechoslovakia, and my favorite part, typical tribal beading colors. Nice pictures too.

So, I mused in a tweet that instead of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, where writers produce a 50,000 word novel by writing every day), I/we should bead every day. Should it be NaBeMo? NaSeBeMo? That would be National Seed Bead Month — but I said this in 140 characters or less, of course! Jennifer…

The ACC library has a new library catalog, and out of curiosity, I entered “beadwork” into the search box at the top. The 76 results don’t include many of the how-to books of my very extensive public library, but do include some interesting historical and cultural titles. I see titles on Yoruba beadwork, Navajo beadwork,…